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<h4 class="subsection">3.4.3 Commands Dealing with Object File Formats</h4>
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<p>A couple of linker script commands deal with object file formats.
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<dt><code>OUTPUT_FORMAT(</code><var>bfdname</var><code>)</code><dt><code>OUTPUT_FORMAT(</code><var>default</var><code>, </code><var>big</var><code>, </code><var>little</var><code>)</code><dd><a name="index-OUTPUT_005fFORMAT_0028_0040var_007bbfdname_007d_0029-337"></a><a name="index-output-file-format-in-linker-script-338"></a>The <code>OUTPUT_FORMAT</code> command names the BFD format to use for the
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output file (see <a href="BFD.html#BFD">BFD</a>).  Using <code>OUTPUT_FORMAT(</code><var>bfdname</var><code>)</code> is
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exactly like using <span class="samp">--oformat </span><var>bfdname</var> on the command line
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(see <a href="Options.html#Options">Command Line Options</a>).  If both are used, the command
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line option takes precedence.
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     <p>You can use <code>OUTPUT_FORMAT</code> with three arguments to use different
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formats based on the <span class="samp">-EB</span> and <span class="samp">-EL</span> command line options. 
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This permits the linker script to set the output format based on the
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desired endianness.
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     <p>If neither <span class="samp">-EB</span> nor <span class="samp">-EL</span> are used, then the output format
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will be the first argument, <var>default</var>.  If <span class="samp">-EB</span> is used, the
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output format will be the second argument, <var>big</var>.  If <span class="samp">-EL</span> is
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used, the output format will be the third argument, <var>little</var>.
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     <p>For example, the default linker script for the MIPS ELF target uses this
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command:
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     <pre class="smallexample">          OUTPUT_FORMAT(elf32-bigmips, elf32-bigmips, elf32-littlemips)
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     <p>This says that the default format for the output file is
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<span class="samp">elf32-bigmips</span>, but if the user uses the <span class="samp">-EL</span> command line
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option, the output file will be created in the <span class="samp">elf32-littlemips</span>
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format.
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     <br><dt><code>TARGET(</code><var>bfdname</var><code>)</code><dd><a name="index-TARGET_0028_0040var_007bbfdname_007d_0029-339"></a><a name="index-input-file-format-in-linker-script-340"></a>The <code>TARGET</code> command names the BFD format to use when reading input
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files.  It affects subsequent <code>INPUT</code> and <code>GROUP</code> commands. 
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This command is like using <span class="samp">-b </span><var>bfdname</var> on the command line
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(see <a href="Options.html#Options">Command Line Options</a>).  If the <code>TARGET</code> command
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is used but <code>OUTPUT_FORMAT</code> is not, then the last <code>TARGET</code>
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command is also used to set the format for the output file.  See <a href="BFD.html#BFD">BFD</a>. 
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